Purpose of this is to make it easier for users to open the wikipedia, not to link pages to someone else. Imagine you open a browser on some device and need to type
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blah
this is annoying and long
w.org/en/Blag is shorter and easier to type. I guess it would be best if mobile devices supported url's like
w Blah
which would redirect you to wikipedia page [[Blah]]. This could be implemented to some browsers by team of mobile devs we have? I guess that systems like android have the browser extendable by plugins. It could be a part of application for android we have
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, but you need to know in advance that [[Donut]] is at short.org/aGcK I'm not sure at this point which is what we're trying to solve.
I see two different use cases here: one, you have URLs that need to be short so they can fit in Twitter messages and the like. Here, it doesn't matter whether the URL is human-readable, as long as it's short. The other use case is that you want to give people a human-rememberable URL in speech or on TV or the like, where it can't be hyperlinked. There it should be short but ideally also descriptive.
A single URL scheme won't necessarily work well for all possible use cases.
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